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This one seems to have one, there are no comments at the other HN story.

The link it references is: http://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-flavored-markdown

I find the linked blog post more informative, personally.

I vote for this one and not for the horror one.

Why not both? Both provide value.

It is not the first time this happens. It might be a good idea to merge the comment trees and let both links show at the top of the page for these cases.

the codinghorror one is more interesting imho

So the voting buttons are just for decoration now? It's the number of comments that determines which stories get the front page and which are buried?

No, but in the case where there are two posts covering the same story on the front page, it's certainly a factor.

If one url had been obviously better than the other, we would have kept it and (if necessary) assigned it to the thread with more comments. In this case, neither url was obviously better. That's why I asked, and also why the responses were contradictory.

I'm fine with this one being the lead article.

p.s. my blog is awesome